Plastic Recycling Inc. merges with St. Joseph Plastics
Two plastics reclaimers have merged to form one company with nine facilities and about 300 employees across the Midwest and...
PP
Studies cover food-grade recycled PP, airborne plastics
One academic study from Iowa explored using residential PP scrap at different levels in new food bottles, and another in...
Midwest reclaimer rolls out $2 million PP processing line
Plastic Recycling Inc. has launched a post-consumer PP scrap processing line, with an eye toward obtaining an FDA food-contact letter...
AI-powered study will examine PP recycling streams
Closed Loop Partners, NextGen Consortium and AI developer Greyparrot plan to study the composition of polypropylene in recycling streams using...
Canada issues grant to develop PPE recycling
Vitacore Industries, a personal protective equipment manufacturer, received 4.18 million Canadian dollars (about $3.17 million) to develop a facility to...
Plastics producer invests in European polyolefins reclaimer
Polyolefins producing giant LyondellBasell has purchased a 50% stake in a Dutch plastics reclaimer that specializes in producing HDPE and...
Envision adding second line for recycled HDPE, PP
Envision Plastics is leaning into demand for PCR and putting millions of dollars into adding another recycled food-grade HDPE and...
Post-consumer plastics find uses in furniture, polymers
Two companies are marketing chairs made from recycled content, and another two debuted a line of post-consumer polymers.
Circulate Capital, Closed Loop announce investments
Two organizations focused on making the plastics supply chain more circular recently shared some investment news.
ADS plans recycled resin ‘debottlenecking’ projects
Advanced Drainage Systems is in the midst of a multiyear, multimillion-dollar recycling debottlenecking project that includes upgrading recycling equipment and...
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